January 2013
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“Lovers alone wear sunlight.
- E.E. Cummings”
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Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. - Kate Forsyth
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“That’s death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.”
- Ben Sherwood
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Unending Love By Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age old pain, Its ancient tale of being apart or together. As...
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A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. I think I, too, have known autumn too long. - E. E. Cummings
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My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth.
- Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
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“There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human...”
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“The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.” - Sue Monk Kidd
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“Only by you my heart always moves.
- E.E. Cummings”
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Moon Goddess’s Rapture
The soft clouds of night drift slowly across the moon as the rhythm of the night brings a melody of love to the cool evening air and kisses are stolen by lovers everywhere. The stars dot an ebony sky like jewels on a regal crown while deep in the undergrowth crickets enhance the night as their calls mingle among the light by a fireflies dance. The babbling brook tells tales to the whispering trees...
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A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or less of power. There is a silent eloquence In every wild bluebell That fills my softened heart with bliss That words could never tell.
- Anne Bronte
September 2012
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Consider a painting by Rembrandt or a bronze by Degas or a violin by Stradivarius or a play by Shakespeare. They have great value for two reasons: their creators were masters and they are few in number. Yet there are more than one of each of these. On that reasoning you are the most valuable treasure on the face of the earth, for you know who created you and there is only one of you. Never, in...
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I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
- Audrey Hepburn
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“Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.” - Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt
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Across the dimly lighted room The violin drew wefts of sound, Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. I watched the music turn to light, But at the pausing of the bow, The web was broken and the glow Was drowned within the wave of night.
- Sara Teasdale
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“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place...”
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand
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“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.” ― Pearl S. Buck
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“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that’s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.” ― Gabrielle Zevin
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“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.” - Madeleine L’Engle
